Short Moorings Poems

eye    can't keep it     still



the taste of ample     moorings



anchors   plunging   thirsts...

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Vista line, wide sea
           loosen moorings, release sails
                   heart boat sailing... i...

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dank seasonal veil
vapors slip their dark moorings
a vampiric death?


Brian Johnston
November 8, 2015...

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~ he's at the mercy of circumstances; boat adrift from its moorings ~



Date written: 06/03/2023...

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Gently wooed from turquoise moorings
      Daydreams sailed to mist skirted realms
           Excursions of a whimseyed mind

                       31 Dec 2014...

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Outside the rain-splattered window
winds whipped
tearing still-moist leaves
from their moorings
hurled to the ground
dying, like our love
prematurely
without a proper goodbye...

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In the blink of an eyelash, she had departed
    his moorings untethered, left brokenhearted

  Then I suppose there's no way to prepare
    to hear these four words, 'I never did care'...

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In Joys' windy traverse
Their day a-float
Had just lost its moorings!
And it's bearings!

Hopeless you say; for help
With need to call?
Ventures this wild and free
Dare who? Which sea?...

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Bearings lost, just like that, dark---can't see
  
  Tide's pulse doth quicken...

    Moorings unpinned, in a flash---at sea

Reaching / stretching / clawing / panic-stricken 

   Tide's pulse doth quicken......

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Siren,

your fluid
hymn lures
me past tense 
gray gulls

who eye me, 
anxious 
for my safe
return

They circle,
keening...

and the tide
moves to
free me of
               my moorings

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May 13, 2019...

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Quiet storms rage in my head, where I live on a boat with no anchor.
Jagged rocks all around threaten to breach and pull me under.
Out the window, in the distance, a light in the storm.
She reaches out her hand and opens her heart and her light guides me to safe moorings....

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The mind drifts
  free-floats gaily
far, far from its moorings
  lighter-than-air

Associations stream
  in-and-out on
ribbons, wisps of lazy strings
  hanging from rose-colored kites

Dark forces loom
  yet undetected
thoughts breathlessly racing
  beyond our tenuous grasp...

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They scream a soundless soliloquy,
skeletal sentinels contorted,
once proud standards displaying jubilant banners.
The tidal push rushes in, out, in, out
about ashen bones,
marking where moorings anchored
before life swept away to sea.

Copyright, November 25, 2017
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Fair winds and following seas.
May full sails surge with scudding breeze.
May peaceful moorings host your craft
wherever indulgent winds waft.

A toast now to your safe return.
May choppy seas be left astern.
May evening offer pleasing berth
to ensconce in halcyon firth....

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                               Faith Over Hope
  
    
      
                 
                           faith outshadows hope
                           golden bright, it’s colorings
                           humble, its moorings


                                  11/1/2022




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Pictures interred

deep into gray matter 

shatters delusion

except from time

no moorings holding them in place

to past or future

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6/12/15  For the "Through Your Eyes" Contest

(Requirement using 21 words)
Resubmitted for Brian Strand's Contest #221...

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Clutching a sapling
  no port in the storm
Torn from its moorings
  No hope to keep warm

A waif of a girl
  wrapped in shawl and waistcoat
She’d not survive long
  her voice stuck in her throat…

When the blizzard abated
  she was found frozen stiff
buried alive ‘neath a snowmound
  Mother Nature not a finger did lift...

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The mad streets roam alone,
the mice people scuttle, just scuttle
lest they be found separately.
Bedlam slips its moorings,
boats are rocked.
Across America the inmates strut
out of the holes in their heads
pick a victim, kick down the heedless,
and the police watch their wristwatches
waiting for the shift to begin,
but none show up,
only the pavement patients,
and the sick souls who need help
to die....

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Idle porcelain boats 
are seagulls 
floating
on a teal harbor
blond moorings
cast like kelp
Sails stiff 
as egrets
glide slowly
toward 
a cerulean channel
Atop turtle islands
pastel cottages
are pearls gleaming
on oyster beaches
umbrellas splayed
like starfish
on sandstone terraces
schools
of rainbow blossoms
wafting
in the salty air


3rd Place
Late June Premier Contest
Sponsor:  Brian Strand
6/25/17...

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When  sudden rainfall gushes here
A wharf’s landing dampens its  floor…
Outside,  inky cloudscapes appear
Like horse shadows crashing  the shore.
Greater the pour as debris  floats ,
Adrift through mist and teeming spray
While  voyagers in painted boats--
Consider moorings a dismay.
Until gale considers to leave
As sunshine pours a hued beam
Enhancing the glitter of eve
As pilgrims land safely, upstream.



Robert Haigh’s Challenge—
3/11/2018...

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I slipped loose some time ago
it feels, the knot untied, cut;
depending on perspective;
gently pushed away to float
freely, wildly, aimlessly.
Some new imagined moorings
hauling steady at my line;
as they ever did and will.

When all the rivers, far seas,
oceans have been sailed upon
and longings have been sated;
I will weary and so yearn
to tie up again, awhile,
shape this berth into my shrine;

'till, new imagined moorings
do haul steady at my line....

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